{"id":2995,"date":"2013-02-14T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:01:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:01:52","slug":"fathom-mage-and-multiple-counters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/02\/fathom-mage-and-multiple-counters\/","title":{"rendered":"Fathom Mage and Multiple Counters"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>While I’m a Gruul at heart (and an Azorious on the outside), I’ve always been intrigued by the Simic guild. I wasn’t very satisfied with Simic during their first appearance during Ravnica block, but there’s quiteb a few interesting cards in Simic this time around. One that intrigues me the most is Fathom Mage<\/a>. What does every blue mage love? Drawing cards. And if you can pile a whole bunch of counters on at once, you’ll get to draw a bunch of cards.<\/p>\n

So let’s look at an example. Let’s say I have my Fathom Mage<\/a> on the battlefield. And I cast Blessings of Nature<\/a>, which puts four +1\/+1 counters on my Mage. The Mage’s ability triggers for each +1\/+1 counter placed on it. Since I just placed four +1\/+1 counters on the Mage, its ability will trigger a total of four times, and I’ll be able to draw four cards. Seems like a good deal to me.<\/p>\n

This also works if the Mage is entering the battlefield with counters. For instance, if I have a Master Biomancer<\/a> on the battlefield and I cast the Mage, the Biomancer will cause the Mage to enter the battlefield with two +1\/+1 counters on it. And since the definition of ‘placed’ includes a permanent entering the battlefield with a counter, the Mage’s ability would trigger and I would get to draw two cards (assuming the Biomancer’s power was still two).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I’m a Gruul at heart (and an Azorious on the outside), I’ve always been intrigued by the Simic guild. I wasn’t very satisfied with Simic during their first appearance during Ravnica block, but there’s quiteb a few interesting cards in Simic this time around. One that intrigues me the most is . What does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-triggeredabilities","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}